Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that if the calculations you give exclude the tail , another 48″ of fish should be removed to bring the stocking level down to a manageable size . |
| 2 | Simulated annealing uses random perturbations to shake the parameter values out of a local optimum so that globally optimal values may be found . |
| 3 | I have been lucky enough to stroke porpoises from a rowing boat in Loch Torridon , swim in a deep burn with a baby otter in Ardnamurchan and help clear somebody 's cottage loft out of a deep pile of pine marten droppings . |
| 4 | The banks or organisations that issue them guarantee payment of bills run up by the credit card holder up to a certain limit . |
| 5 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 6 | But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour . |
| 7 | Place the cake tin base down on a sheet of paper ( double thickness if necessary ) , and draw round it with a pencil . |
| 8 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 9 | She eased her sticking back from the car seat up to a cafe where a boy with slanting eyes and a towel tied round his waist wiped a table clean for them , then shook a filthy cloth over it with a flourish . |
| 10 | joined our maintenance department on as an electrician . |
| 11 | Mr How had set up a property firm called Prosperpoint , and transfered cash from his clients investment funds through to a bank in the Isle of Man , then on to Switzerland , then back to Prosperpoint . |
| 12 | Mr Lamont had cut car tax from 10 per cent to five per cent in March this year but his action failed to pull the car industry out of a three-year nose dive . |
| 13 | If an employee trades up to a more expensive model and the employer makes a charge , an output tax liability arises on the value of that charge , except where the employee pays by way of deduction from gross salary . |
| 14 | Yet , till the day she died , she put the tea tray down on a lighter table , next to the heavy one , that had survived . |
| 15 | The line of a jaw , the curve of a breast , the way the hair falls just so : as well as this potent mix of stored physical ideals — what Simonde de Beauvoir called ‘ incandescence ’ — you are , like it or not , influenced by fundamental programming which dictates that , while the ‘ higher ’ processes of your mind dicker around in a gadfly twentieth-century way , the areas of the brain that control instinctive behaviour are looking for a mate , a woman of energy and physical alertness : a good breeder . |
| 16 | The weapons were found buried in deep undergrowth near the murder scene along with a petrol can and blue polythene sheeting , believed to have been used to carry coal to stoke the massive blaze where Mr Pettitt 's body was burned . |
| 17 | But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour . |
| 18 | Cornelius slipped one of the spare fan belts on as a headband . |
| 19 | Van Gogh 's " Sunflowers " dominated her living room along with a painting by a famous aboriginal artist . |
| 20 | ‘ Ai n't you ashamed , makin' me wear things out of a pawnshop ? ’ |
| 21 | Darryl Davidson of Gregson Road , Hoghton , Preston wins a VIP day out for a party of four people on the East Lancashire Railway because he was the first entry selected at random with the four correct answers to our quiz based on the North West line . |
| 22 | His mother presses the sweets into his hand like someone handing blood plasma over in a war zone . |
| 23 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 24 | to the allotment ( otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph above ) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of £53 256 906 . |
| 25 | to the allotment [ otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph [ a ] above ] of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,350,000 ; |
| 26 | B. ‘ That , subject to the passing of Resolution A , before this meeting , the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 24 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 to allot equity securities ( as defined by section 23 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 ) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by such resolution as if sub-section ( 1 ) of the said Section 23 did not apply to any such allotment provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders and to the allotment ( otherwise than pursuant to a rights issue as aforesaid ) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of IR£1,772,100 . |
| 27 | However , readers are advised to phone the Club Secretary on before a long journey to check on meeting and/or speakers etc . |
| 28 | Yeah well I 'll put my seat belt on in a minute right |
| 29 | Keep the blood pressure down to a dull roar . |
| 30 | There was a coconut shy , a candy floss stall , and one where you got a prize for fishing up a coloured celluloid duck out of a moat of dirty grey water . |